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Newspaper Clippings for Champaign County, Illinois
Gilbert Stevens, of Homer, Ill., is visiting his relatives at this place (Newton,
Jasper County, IL) [January 2, 1874, The Newton Press, Jasper County,
IL - submitted by K. Torp] [NEW!]
Champaign - The council of administration of the University of Illinois barred the tango and the new one-step from
halls in the university district. The council also voted to allow only women to use the women's building at the
university. [Friday, December 12, 1913, Ste. Marie Tribune, Jasper
County, IL - submitted by K. Torp]
Champaign - Because they killed a red deer, which had escaped from the F.K. Robeson farm, 7 men were fined $50
and costs. It was the first prosecution of its kind in central Illinois [Friday,
December 12, 1913, Ste. Marie Tribune, Jasper County, IL - submitted by K. Torp]
Champaign - Kenneth McClellan, 4 years old, shot and killed his 2 year old sister with a revolver he found under
a bed. [Friday, December 12, 1913, Ste. Marie Tribune, Jasper County,
IL - submitted by K. Torp]
Champaign - Gus Penman, charged with the murder of Harold Shaw of Urbana, ill., took the witness stand at Champaign
and declared he had no recollection of the killing. [Friday, December
19, 1913, Ste. Marie Tribune, Jasper County, IL - submitted by K. Torp]
Detective RITTENHOUSE, of Champaign, left Chester a few days ago, having in custody Eugene
WILLIAMS, wanted in Piatt County for horse-stealing, and Shield CASPER, wanted in Champaign County for running
off mortgaged property. Williams was in the hold-over at Chester, having been arrested as he came out of the penitentiary,
having just finished a term for a burglary committed in Jefferson County. Casper was captured by the detective
at Jonesboro. [The Newton Press, Jasper Co., IL April 18, 1888, submitted by
K. Torp]
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